Author Topic: Sweet To The Eyes.. But (Read 5288 times)

Tehas · « **on:** December 09, 2004, 11:23:19 pm »

I got my 6K two days ago and the display is amazing.

But I was disappointed to hear that it still has that blasted alarma300 wave file as the default sound and that it can't be changed. I was obsessed with finding a fix for it on the 5600 and never did find a solution. It appears as though the 6000s have that same sound.

I really hate sitting in a meeting with Palm and WinCE owners and having my alarm go off. Hey, look at me, I run Linux, MySQL, Apache, X11, and all kinds of freaking other stuff but I can't change that sound!

pldrouin · « **Reply #1 on:** December 10, 2004, 06:15:21 pm »

But if you know the filename, why not overwrite it by something else?

soundwave106 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 10, 2004, 07:52:14 pm »

You would *think* it would be as easy as replacing the WAV in /home/QtPalmtop/sounds/. Alas, its not to be. Even BuzConfig couldn't change the sound of the alarm application. I guess the Sharp ROM points to /usr/QtPalmtop.rom/sounds/alarma300.wav directly. That's dumb.

Tehas · « **Reply #3 on:** December 10, 2004, 08:51:01 pm »

I've even symlinked the entry in /usr/QtPalmtop.rom/sounds/ to a different wave file and it still didn't work. I eventually contacted Sharp's support and they said that it was 'compiled' in and could not be changed.

Maybe the new Qtopia release will have a way to change it.

bluedevils · « **Reply #4 on:** December 10, 2004, 10:34:01 pm »

I doubt it. If you want an app with customized alarms then kde pim pi is the only one I know of. It has a default alarm, but you can also specify a sound file to use.

cowcow · « **Reply #5 on:** December 12, 2004, 05:07:57 am »

Anyone knows which binaary is the alaema300 hardcoded in? i cannot find it in datebook. i am thinking of modifying the binary directly to call another wave file. not sure if this possible at all

Tehas · « **Reply #6 on:** December 12, 2004, 12:12:33 pm »

I'm not sure that it's hard coded in any one application because so many of them "use" it (for example qpeAlarmClock, konsole, built in PIM datebook). I was thinking it was something in the OS or Qtopia kind of how Windows has a default beep wave event.

soundwave106 · « **Reply #7 on:** December 12, 2004, 09:23:43 pm »

Yeah... I actually hex edited the applications on my Windows machine (dunno if there's a good Linux hex editor yet ) to see if I could actually find a file reference in there. No dice on that regard, but I found some Alarm type calls that indicate its a Qtopia function. Didn't really investigate much further.

bluedevils · « **Reply #8 on:** December 14, 2004, 05:12:30 pm »

there was a discussion on this a while back. The alarm is built into the kernel.

News:

Author Topic: Sweet To The Eyes.. But (Read 5288 times)